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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2006
Atsushi Nishioka, Shiojiri, JP;
Kenichiro Arai, Shiojiri, JP;
Koichi Ebina, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A media processor, such as an optical disk publisher, is capable of efficiently discarding media such as a defective CD without using a manual discarding process. At the time of media publication of an optical disk publisher, blank mediastored in a supply-side stackeris taken out by a media conveying mechanismand is conveyed to a media drive, and predetermined data is written into the blank media. Printing is performed on printing surfaces of the media into which data has been normally written by means of a label printer. The published media is stored in a storage-side stacker. Defective media on which a failure in writing has occurred is disposed of so as not to be readable by mechanically destroying a recording surface of the defective media by means of a media disposal mechanism while moving the defective media in a state where the defective media is mounted on a media trayof a printer. Discarded media after the disposal is ejected from a media outlet